Redwoods National and State Parks

If anyone was wondering where I have been, I’m still here but my connection through my phone hasn’t always been here. In 1943 Betty Smith wrote “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”. Well if she had ever seen the Costal Redwoods in California, she would have named it “A Bush Grows in Brooklyn”. The Sequoia trees were massive, but the Redwoods are extremely tall. Some of these trees started growing 1000 years before the star shining in the eastern sky lead the Three Wisemen to Bethlehem. When I saw one of the Sequoias that had fallen, I wondered how long it took for them to decay. I was wondering the same thing about the Redwoods. Then I saw a Redwood that had fallen, and another Redwood had grown up around the trunk of the fallen tree and the new tree was over 200 feet tall, so it had been growing for a long time. The fallen tree was still pretty solid. I have found challenging to photograph these trees. They are so packed together that it is really dark inside of the forest. They are really beautiful, but I don’t feel that I have been able to capture that beauty. I thought that I would get a lot of fog so I could get the beams of sunshine filtering through the fog and tree tops but that hasn’t happened yet. I still have five more days so I’m keeping my fingers crossed.  These are costal Redwoods, so I am right along the Pacific coast. The coast is beautiful with a lot of sea stacks along the beach. Sea stacks are the large rocks that stick up out of the water away from the beach.  There are signs along the highway telling you when you are entering or leaving a tsunami area. There are also signs that tell you if you feel an earthquake think tsunami and immediately move to higher ground. There are also signs that warn you about “sneaker waves”. These are giant waves that come out of nowhere and can be as high as 16 feet. The signs say to never turn your back on the ocean. So, I guess if the great whites can’t get you in the water, they will ride the sneaker waves and get you that way.